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...three-year-olds to performing on the violin and other instruments, or the Better Baby Institute in Philadelphia, which offers parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book Working and Caring, is to back off from the pushy stuff, which he condemns...
...space over the past 2 1/2 years. Among them: a record 237-day manned flight by three cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 space station, a daring repair mission to restart that station after a near total power failure, and a highly sophisticated radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega 1 and Vega 2 inspections of Halley's comet. Each Vega flyby was preceded by a swing past Venus to drop an instrument-laden balloon into the planet's dense atmosphere...
Space agency officials would only say that three NASA ships were at sea conducting sonar sweeps and photographing underwater objects with robot subs...
Astronaut Judy Resnik, 36, used the shuttle's robot arm to delicately break away a chunk of ice that built up on the side of the space shuttle Discovery during her first flight...
Other scientists are more restrained in their estimates. Hollerbach says robots like the one Poggio described are probably a long way off. For the present, he calls attempting to embody all artificial intelligence research in a single robot "a waste of time," because while the research remains primarily in the theoretical and experimental stages, "the whole will be less than the sum of its parts...